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Hindu holy bull 'Shambo" slaughtered.

andybob

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Members of a Hindu community were mourning the loss of the temple bullock Shambo today as it was confirmed the six-year-old Friesian had been slaughtered.
A spokesman for the Welsh Assembly said that Shambo was put down by lethal injection last night.

It followed yesterday's extraordinary events as monks, who held Shambo as sacred, and protesters tried to thwart official attempts to kill the animal, which tested positive for bovine tuberculos three months ago.



The Welsh Assembly had ordered the slaughter of Shambo to protect public and animal health, but monks in the small Skanda Vale community in Llanpumsaint, west Wales, started a legal battle to save him. However, on Monday the court of appeal finally ruled against preserving Shambo, whose plight has attracted publicity across the world.
Speaking after Shambo's departure, Brother Alex, one of the community's senior monks, said he believed everything had been done to save Shambo's life.

"We've simply done our duty. We did everything we could to uphold the sanctity of life," he said.

Ramesh Kallidai, secretary general of the Hindu Forum of Britain, said the group wanted reassurances about temple animals in the light of Shambo's plight.

"We will now seek a meeting with the secretary of state for the environment to check how agricultural law can cater to the needs of sacred animals in Hindu temples in Britain," he said.


No doubt a difficult decision for the authorities, but the bottom line is laws made to protect the health of the community at large must be upheld, make one exeption, and you open the floodgates, it is unfortunate that in this case a religous icon was involved which will always be an emotional aspect for the Hindu adherents.
 
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